From: Tim Hunter <rmagick@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T01:53:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Change a string to an integer, report an error if the st

Randy Kramer wrote:
> Can anybody point me to a way to check if a string represents a valid 
> integer
> and then convert it to an integer?
> 
> It is very likely the string will contain leading zeros, and should not
> contain any trailing non-numeric characters.
> 
> Per the documentation (pickaxe 2), to_i won't quite do it, it will just 
> ignore
> trailing non-numeric characters.
> 

Check out Kernel#Integer
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